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Old 06-20-2015, 08:47 PM
 
Location: Montreal -> CT -> MA -> Montreal -> Ottawa
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I'm reading Our Souls at Night, the newest by Kent Haruf.

Our Souls at Night: A novel - Kindle edition by Kent Haruf. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

I was put off from the get-go. The book STARTS with the word "And" ... and, exactly, it felt like I walked into the middle of a movie. It's very staccato and there are no segues -- it's blunt and abrupt and "just the facts, ma'am; just the facts." Who are these people? How did they get to where they are? Details! Give me SOMETHING! But, no. I gots nuttin'!

It's a very short book (just 188 pages) so I figured I'd give it a shot beyond the first few pages and, yup, details start to emerge while Addie and Louis tell each other about their lives. I can't say that I'm buying the premise of how these two "got together" but I'm at 25% now and I'm learning more about them and I want to learn more.
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Old 06-20-2015, 09:07 PM
 
Location: Canada
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I'm reading Our Souls at Night, the newest by Kent Haruf.

Our Souls at Night: A novel - Kindle edition by Kent Haruf. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

I was put off from the get-go. The book STARTS with the word "And" ... and, exactly, it felt like I walked into the middle of a movie. It's very staccato and there are no segues -- it's blunt and abrupt and "just the facts, ma'am; just the facts." Who are these people? How did they get to where they are? Details! Give me SOMETHING! But, no. I gots nuttin'!

It's a very short book (just 188 pages) so I figured I'd give it a shot beyond the first few pages and, yup, details start to emerge while Addie and Louis tell each other about their lives. I can't say that I'm buying the premise of how these two "got together" but I'm at 25% now and I'm learning more about them and I want to learn more.
Isn't that a book that was compiled after his death? That could account for the disjointed feeling. But I could be wrong. Thought I had read something like that.
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Old 06-20-2015, 10:07 PM
 
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I gave up on "Worthy Brown's Daughter" it was flat and melodramatic. I kept waiting for Simon Legree to arrive and toss Heather Griffin on the tracks.

Tomorrow I will begin "The Story Teller" by Margaret Coel.

Good night.
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Old 06-20-2015, 10:58 PM
 
Location: Calgary, Canada
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Freedom to Die by Stephen Selke actually a friend of mine so im super proud of him for writing a book!
It has a very supernatural like start to it so im liking it so far
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Old 06-21-2015, 02:33 AM
 
Location: Texas
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I've read three of his books and they were total delights. He captured the aura of small town America beautifully. I didn't want any of them to end. We lost a great writer when he died last year.
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Old 06-21-2015, 02:45 AM
 
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
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Just started Everville by Clive Barker
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Old 06-21-2015, 02:52 AM
 
Location: north central Ohio
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Finished Cell by Robin Cook.In these days of Obamacare,this book is very timely and terrifying!

Gripping read that would have been a one-sitting read.... unputdownable if my teen granddaughter wasn't visiting and keeping me busy.

Goes on my list of favorite 5-star reads!

Could have done without the scattered "F" bombs, and bedroom scenes, though thankfully, no details.

One pretty gruesome scene.

Great writing makes the nanotechnology understandable,and the character development is done very well.

Highly recommended for those who love suspense-thrillers!

Next up...either a suspense by Nora Roberts or Creepers by David Morrell On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure - which foreshadowed the beauties of art deco architecture - is now boarded up and marked for demolition.

The five people are "creepers," the slang term for urban explorers: city archeologists with a passion for investigating abandoned buildings and their dying secrets. On this evening, they are joined by a reporter who wants to profile them - anonymously, as this is highly illegal activity - for a New York Times article.

Frank Balenger, a sandy-haired, broad-shouldered reporter with a decided air of mystery about him, isn't looking for just a story, however. And after the group enters the rat-infested tunnel leading to the hotel, it becomes clear that he will get much more than he bargained for. Danger, terror, and death await the creepers in a place ravaged by time and redolent of evil.
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Old 06-21-2015, 03:05 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Binge read Jana Deleon's Louisiana Longshot series. LOVED IT. Total mind candy but hilarious. Finished that in a couple of days bc it was so funny.
Finishing Jennie Bentley's DIY mysteries right now. It's ok. Ok enough to keep me reading.

Waiting for some new stuff to drop, but I'd read the phone book if Alexander McCall Smith wrote it.
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Old 06-21-2015, 03:24 AM
 
Location: Somewhere.
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I read more than one at a time. My list this month is:

Zoo by James Patterson

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

MaddAdam by Margaret Atwood.

The most interesting right now is Shopaholic. Quite funny.
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Old 06-21-2015, 03:28 AM
 
Location: Texas
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I read that Mindy Kaling book a couple weeks back. Enjoyed that more than I was expecting.
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